Uwe Jahn

Uwe Jahn works with thin acrylic paints in muted, atmospheric chords of colour. All paintings are brightly translucent – like Cézanne’s watercolours. He loves small-format landscape formats or squares. Thus some seem to be still lifes and simply suggest domestic objects, others reveal themselves as landscapes, clusters of earth or clouds. Once he even put a colored house shape in front of a large white picture, onto which a ray of sunlight seems to fall. But he also mistrusts the reality in which he lives and looks for orders that the “elemental spirits” of the Romantics dictate, orders that arise when the wind blows dunes of sand, when a stream dries up, when the shadow of an object becomes visible that remains hidden. The multiplex plate on which he stages such events has to undergo numerous processes. It is covered with thin paint, a chisel rubs off the paint again, new colours appear, finally the board seems to be covered to the edge, again the ceiling is opened – the layers of the surface become more translucent up to that state, which attracts the viewer irresistibly, yes, I would like to say, sucks in, swallows his glances. He loses himself in the paintings as much as the painter managed to forget his own reality in the silence of his studio for a span of time.

(Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Becker)

Vita Uwe Jahn
Born 1954 in Wolmirstedt.
Studied at Hochschule für Bildende Künste (HBK) Braunschweig.
Lives and Works in Aachen.


Exhibitions (Selection)

2016
Malerei-Skulptur-Objekt “Keine Wunder – keine Lügen Uwe Jahn, Heinz Jahn, Claude Wall” KunstRaum Bernusstraße, Frankfurt am Main

2014
Malerei-Objekte ” VIEL HIMMEL HINTER DEM GRASHALM ” Galerie Freitag 1830, Aachen

2012
Malerei-Objekte Galerie Perplies, Aachen

2011
Malerei-Objekte Galerie Freitag 1830, Aachen

2010
Malerei ” EINE LANDPARTIE ” Gallitzin‐Haus, Münster ‐ Angelmodde

2009
Malerei ” MINIATUREN ” Galerie Freitag 1830, Aachen, Gruppenausstellung

2006
Malerei-Objekte ” DAS LACHENDE FELD ” , Braunschweig Gruppenausstellung

2005
Malerei-Objekte Galerie Gruppe Grün, Bremen Gruppenausstellung

2003
Malerei Galerie Forum Lindenthal, Köln

2000
Malerei EXPOSICION DE PINTURA, Toledo ( Esp.)
Malerei TEAMWORK Ludwig Forum Aachen

1999
Malerei KÜNSTLER IN AACHEN HEUTE Ludwig Forum Aachen, Gruppenausstellung

1997
Rauminstallation DIE EISERNE NACHRICHTENZENTRALE Dortmund -­ Hörde, Gruppenausstellung

1995
Malerei-Objekte-Plastik, Eisfabrik – Aachen

1995
Malerei UNI Wuppertal, Hohaue

1987
Rauminstallation, ehem. Fabrikhallen – Berlinerstr., Braunschweig

1986
Rauminstallation, Staatstheater Braunschweig, Gruppenausstellung

1985
Rauminstallation, Eisfabrik-Seilerstr., Hannover, Gruppenausstellung